It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

The Bible makes the best people in the world.